<blockquote><em>I’m a man with no power. Does that make me a woman?</em></blockquote>
This line from an anonymous Mattel employee might seem like a cheap joke, but MIT professor Sally Haslanger took it very seriously in her article “Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them to Be?” where she proposes that we redefine the term “woman” to explicitly reflect the role of patriarchy in the construction of gender.
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 	<li>What does the word "woman" mean?</li>
 	<li>How is the concept of "woman" linked to oppression?</li>
 	<li>Can we just redefine concepts?</li>
 	<li>Would it be good to redefine "woman" in the way Haslanger suggests?</li>
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